Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
Isaiah
Major ProphetsThat it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
Matthew
GospelsAnd Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him.
1 Samuel
History / Samuel(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanIn the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2 Kings
HistoryI have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThere went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanThese are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
Numbers
LawAs God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
Genesis
Law / MosesGive them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
Genesis
Law / MosesWho is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
Malachi
Minor ProphetsThe LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.
Psalms
PoetryHim that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnThen Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
Genesis
LawWho hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsFor thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
Obadiah
Minor Prophets / ObadiahAnd they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
2 Chronicles
HistoryNow the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
2 Chronicles
HistoryBut Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
Luke
GospelsThen went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: